Can you explain why do you like this shit? Why? Why do you like it? I seriously... I just don't understand why you guys pretend to like noise "music". It's beyond me.
Can you explain why do you like this shit? Why? Why do you like it? I seriously...
Jeremiah Murphy
Josiah Russell
A sense of auditory texture, you sound like a Renaissance painting fan saying "wow wtf how can people pretend to enjoy Monet, this is just random splotches"
James Cruz
on a more serious note, why don't you try to ease into noise?
check out merzbow's collaborations like Cuts Up Cuts Out. there merzbow is accompanied by a drummer, a saxophonist and thurston moore on the guitar.
you'll notice how everyone manages to jam along with the noise. noise is basically free-form psychedelia, freed from the restrictions of tempo and contextual instrumentation (at least this is my conclusion). if you try to listen to music that involves a noise element while still having other arrangements that keep those elements grounded, you'll slowly start to see what's good about the genre.
that is, assuming you actually want to get into it and you're not just memeing "lmaoo wtf is this shit xDDD"
There is a lot more accessible harsh noise wall out there
>The Cherry Point - Night of the Bloody Tapes
>Bug Catcher - Ecocacophonies (this one has more of a low-end making it very palatable)
And The Rita - Thousands of Dead Gods
Read about the production of Thousands of Dead Gods while you listen if u want, it's interesting
it's not about "training yourself to like it", it's about being able to see what is the focal points of the genre (easier seen in context than out of context) in order to best appreciate it. if you don't appreciate it (i.e. you don't like it) that's fine, i'm just giving my own personal opinion on how best to go about appreciating it for what its focal points are.
Tyler Bailey
Juan Martinez
why do you care?
Gabriel Bailey
imagine you want to get into modern art (inb4 "why the fuck would i want to do that") so you go to a modern art museum and you're faced with a painting. "that's just a giant blue rectangle" you say to yourself. "what the fuck's so important about a giant blue rectangle? why the fuck is it in a museum?" at this point, you have two options:
1. you go home, shaking your head thinking to yourself "jesus christ modern art is so fucking stupid it's just a fucking blue rectangle"
2. you decide to dig a little deeper.
so let's say you opt for option two so you call up your friend that studied art history to help you understand why the blue rectangle was so important and why it's hanging in a museum. "i mean it's a nice shade of blue, but why is it so famous? i mean, it's not 'better' than a rembrandt or a carvaggio..."
1/2
Blake Evans
your friend tells you "well, no, it's not a rembrandt, but it's also not trying to do the same thing. if you're looking for rembrandt qualities in this artist's work, you're going to be disappointed.
your friend goes on to explain to you that the blue rectangle was made by X artist in 19XX, that X artist was a member of Y art movement, that Y movement was about focusing on A and B and about trying to break free from the restrictions of C and D, and that the blue rectangle is so famous because it was the artist's response to his situation in art movement Y and the work his contemporaries had been working on.
he explains to you why it's blue and why it's a rectangle, how it was made and why the artist wanted to make it. in the context of the artist's other work we can start to make sense of a statement the artist had been working on his whole career, and in the context of the art movement and its moment in time, we can see how it was a reflection (as well as a detraction) of its period.
so now that your friend has given you the blue rectangle's context (when, where, how, and why it was made) you go home and decide for yourself if it was actually a valid artistic statement or not.
and if you didnt want to get into contemporary art, you can save yourself the $10 and just not go to the museum.
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Nicholas Watson
i see it as free-form psychedelia
psychedelic music has often involved noise aspects (everything from guitar feedback to field recordings and other sounds not traditionally tied to musicality). these sounds give us different reactions, guitar feedback moan might be exhilarating or sensual, the sound of white noise distortion might be abrasive and adrenaline-inducing, all of these sounds have their respective appearances in other forms of music. noise, in all of its forms, simply takes these sounds out of their context and allows me to indulge in just that one specific note, texture, timbre, etc.
it's pretty cathartic, it's pretty liberating, i don't know what else to tell you user, i enjoy listening to noise when it happens accidentally when a musician stands on the "wrong" spot on a stage and causes his guitar to feedback out of control, i also enjoy listening to that same sound on its own.
Kevin Richardson
(I copied all these responses from the last time we had this thread. Can we stop making duplicate threads now? These responses were very helpful last time, now stop making these identical threads. “OUWY I DONT GET MERZBOW PULSE DEMONS IT HURT EARS” fuck off).
Tyler Butler
Don't you get tired of making the same thread over and over again, OP? And don't even try to pretend you're not the same guy.